[aggregation-styles] Foreign Affairs Subscription In our essay “Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold,” for the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs, we described the struggle against COVID-19 in terms of a baseball game and estimated that the United States was in about the third inning of a nine-inning contest. At this point,...
Opinion: American Jews Know Israel’s Only Real Peace Deal Is With the Palestinians
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz For many Jewish Americans, the sight of Israeli and Arab officials gathering on the White House lawn to sign an agreement is an emotional one. So many of us, myself included, long to see Israel welcomed by the Arab world as a legitimate and vital part of the...
California Lawmaker Wants a Tax to Soak the Rich for Living Here. Also, for Leaving.
[aggregation-styles] Reason A pack of Democratic lawmakers in California are proposing a wealth tax for the state's richest citizens, forcing them to pay more essentially just for owning a lot of stuff. They also, amazingly, want the tax to follow Californians who flee the state in response, attempting to make...
Prepare for Election Month, Not Election Night
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription All of us need to start preparing for a deeply worrying scenario on Nov. 3. It is not some outlandish fantasy, but rather the most likely course of events based on what we know today. On election night, President Trump will be ahead significantly in...
An Education Innovation That Beats Learning Pods
[aggregation-styles] Wall Street Journal Subscription Faced with public education’s failure to adapt to Covid-19, parents who can afford it are pooling their resources and hiring private tutors to lead home-based “pod” schools. Dreading the prospect of a mass exodus of families from traditional public schools, progressive pundits are condemning these...
Lessons From Three Years in an Iranian Prison
[aggregation-styles] Foreign Affairs In August 2016, shortly after I was arrested by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence, one of my interrogators asked me what I thought of the antagonism between Iran and the United States. I told him frankly that like many Americans, I did not believe that Iran and...
Opinion: Gulf States Have Sacrificed Uighur Muslims for Cash From China
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz The human rights of "people of all ethnic groups" living in China's westernmost region have been "effectively safeguarded." This was the bold assertion in a July 2020 Joint Statement backed by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates , Bahrain and the Sultanate of Oman, among others. Yet, according...
Three Things Trump Is Getting Right, and Democrats Ignored
[aggregation-styles] The Daily Beast Right on cue, the country’s dominant political and media voices, after wildly applauding Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, have responded to Donald Trump’s week in the spotlight with laughter, derision and anger for its supposed amateurism, lack of star power, and racism. And the convention has...
Mr. President, Allow More Suburban Houses To Be Built, Not Less
[aggregation-styles] Pacific Legal Foundation In an August 16 Wall Street Journal op-ed, President Donald Trump and Ben Carson, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, pledged to protect America’s suburbs against federal regulations and “ultra-liberal” attempts to “abolish single-family zoning.” But the reality is that it’s not the...
America’s Excessive Reliance on Sanctions Will Come Back To Haunt It
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Under the Trump administration, the United States has withdrawn from so many international agreements, broken with so many precedents and angered so many allies that it can be difficult to cut through all the noise. But one particular approach could irreparably damage America’s superpower status:...